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Forgers now using autopens'

It's been while for me on here but I was compelled to post this information in hope we could all bombard ebay and get these accounts removed asap.

This guy has several accounts. He is using an autopen and going nuts selling stuff. This is scary. Not only that but apparently he's been shut down on a few accounts and ebay keeps letting him create more. WTF. I personally have never heard of a forger using an autopen but you can buy these things cheap now....

Some of his stuff looks terrible because he uses a bad signature to copy but there are some that look pretty good from a PC view. Eddie Vedder he sold for example. If you didn't know that would fool a lot of people.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/casus-qqmkwcpn/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&am...

http://www.ebay.com/sch/gree-audri/m.html?item=261923354329&has...

This guy is exposing him, check this and his other postings.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/John-Paul-Jones-Autographed-Guitar-Pick-Gua...

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 12, 2015 at 12:50pm

I noticed a Florence Welch autopen being used by a couple UK sellers, though the autopen pattern appears to be of a forgery anyway.

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on June 12, 2015 at 2:10pm

Gotta love the autopen copies of forgeries, that's right up there with the people selling pre-printed forgeries.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 12, 2015 at 5:21pm

Florence Welch autopen (sold as authentic, hand signed). Sold over the past few years by various sellers in the UK, usually at rock bottom (a dollar or two) starting bids).

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3

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Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on June 12, 2015 at 7:07pm

Welcome back Mr. Steiger.

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Permalink Reply by N.Steiger on June 15, 2015 at 9:30pm

these might actually be pre printed with the image and not an auto-pen actually.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 15, 2015 at 9:37pm

Possibly - identical signatures in any case. I didn't notice anyone calling these forgery sellers out for preprints on their Ebay feedback, and they were always sold as authentic, hand-signed signatures. I could tell these were fake a long time ago, but after a while I started to notice that some of the signatures were exactly the same.

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Permalink Reply by N.Steiger on June 17, 2015 at 11:01am

Sorry, to elaborate. Take an exsisting photograph and run it through a printer added the ink on top. That is what they do on these. Autopens are not fluid like this.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 30, 2015 at 9:51pm

Think you're right about these being printed - I'm seeing the same light start on the pen stroke of one of the patterns, something I assume an autopen wouldn't duplicate.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 28, 2015 at 12:44pm

Add another to the collection, from Ebay seller ria270704.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUTHENTIC-HAND-SIGNED-FLORENCE-WELCH-10-X-8...

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 30, 2015 at 9:42pm

And another, from Ebay seller aaronharper2013. I wonder how long these morons think this scam will fly. At some point, someone else is going to catch on.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Signed-Photograph-of-Florence-Welch-10-x8...

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Permalink Reply by Rich on November 27, 2015 at 10:28pm

utdforever21 keeps selling the same fake Florence Welch signatures over and over and over again.

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on June 13, 2015 at 4:59am

Signed To You has been using this method for celeb stuff for years now, selling items for $8-$12 a pop. Ebay sellers grab this stuff up oblivious to the fact that they are fakes and flood them into the marketplace. Any celeb imaginable is offered. This is yet another example of using a fake as a template.